Why update Swahili?

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 04:39 +0500, gilpel at altern.org wrote:
> Swahili is certainly a nice language but, unfortunately, I write only in
> French and English. So, why is it that on every dictionaries updates a
> sleuth of them are upgraded? Do mirrors have to somehow spend more
> bandwidth or they're penalized?
> 
> Same goes for certain software. I don't have a trace of Blutooth hardware
> on my system. Certainly the install program must have found that out. Why
> do I receive updates for Blutooth?
> 
> Those are updates that I can easily identify as unnecessary, but how many
> are there exactly? 15% ? 20% ?
> 
> Yesterday, my updates were downloaded at an average of 22 kB/sec.
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this is a participatory project.

If you have packages you don't need, remove them.

If you feel that unnecessary packages are installed because of illogical
dependencies, file a bug report in bugzilla.

Craig


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